Actions

10.1 - Ensure that guidelines for research funding take into account the need for research on disability issues, include disabled people in the development and monitoring of the disability research agenda, and enable disabled people to put forward their own experiences in the context of the research.

10.2 - Collect relevant and useful information about disability through all relevant surveys to inform the research programme.

10.3 - Use disability research, and analyse disability data, including that from the 1996 and 2001 Disability Surveys, to contribute to policy work, service development and monitoring.

10.4 - Undertake research focusing on disability issues for Māori and Pacific peoples.

10.5 - Make disability research information available to disabled people in culturally appropriate and accessible formats.

10.6 - Adopt ethical and procedural standards for disability research projects.

10.7 - Appoint disabled people as members of ethics committees.